In baseball, we’ve seen managers get ejected. Memorably so, across all levels.
In basketball, we’ve seen head coaches get ejected.
But in the NFL, we’ve never in the history of the league seen a head coach ejected. That could change this year.
For the first time ever, referees may be able to eject coaches. According to Football Zebras, a new rule in the NFL’s rulebook that will take effect this year is that non-player personnel will be ejected automatically after two unsportsmanlike conduct fouls. This rule already applies to players, but it is now being extended to non-player personnel as well.
While this could result in someone like Pete Carroll getting ejected, it’s still unlikely. The rule only really applies to fouls such as abusive language directed at an official, which doesn’t happen as often as you’d think. (In theory Mike Tomlin would have been able to continue on even after Tripgate, for example.)
Unfortunately, nobody has released odds yet as to who is most likely to go down in history as the first NFL head coach ever to be ejected.
